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Transformers Goofs/Mistakes

Movie Goof (continuity error): In the initial fight scenes between Bumblebee and Barricade. There will be a time when Barricade is backed up against the camera (facing away from the camera.) Notice the gap of the wheel well. It's huge! There is no rear right wheel. Director's commentary stated they had some problems with the mustangs.
Movie Goof (factual errors): Throughout the movie the characters talk about using 40mm sabot rounds against the robots. However, there are no sabot rounds for hand fired 40mm weapons. The nearest item would be HEDP (High Explosive Dual Purpose) which uses a shape charge to penetrate limited amounts of armor.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): In the scene in Qatar where the scorpion-like robot is attacking the soldiers, there are two main explosions. Closer examination reveals that it is the exact same explosion used twice.
Movie Goof (errors in geography): In the beginning, during the Qatar scenes, you can see mountains in the background. The country of Qatar has no mountains and the highest elevation is 295 feet above sea level. It would also be very unlikely that you would see wooden telephone poles, as we do in the desert scenes ostensibly set in Qatar. Most telephone poles in many middle-eastern countries, more specifically those used away from population centers and in the open desert, would be composed of metal or pre-formed concrete. The main reasons for this being, not only because the extremes of the high heat and low humidity in those climates would dry the wood to the point of breakage very quickly, but also because of the scarcity of logs of the size suitable for that usage.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): The relationship between Captain Archibald Witwicky and Sam Witwicky keeps on changing throughout the film. At different points during the movie, Archibald is said to be Sam's great great grandfather, great grandfather, and grandfather. However, he could have just gotten tired of saying "my great-great grandfather, Archibald Witwicky..." He seldom said "great-great" other than in his report.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): When Sam is running away from his car on the girl's bike and hits the broken sidewalk you can clearly see his double is the one that actually falls over the front of the bike.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): When Capt. Lennox and his team keep walking at the middle east of Qatar, they find a metal structure (probably an antenna). Suddenly, the robot which crawls under the sand breaks the base of that structure, causing the structure to fall down. Two soldiers who are in front of that fallen structure wonder what happened, one among them is a guy with spectacles. At this moment the crew and the equipment are visible in the reflection of the soldier's spectacles (when he says "English dude, English".)
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): When the F-22 intercepts the helicopter 4500X the audio pronounces the tail number as "forty five hundred x-ray." Aviation standards require most numbers be pronounced individually and should have been pronounced "four five zero zero x-ray." However, most controllers are more compulsive than pilots about this and pilots would commonly abbreviate this to either "fourty five hundred" or "four five hundred".
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Sam leaves his house with the Transformers he is carrying his brown jumper. The scene then changes to him talking with the Transformers and he has his brown jumper on. Then the angle changes, and he has his jumper over his shoulder again.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): When the Cube is revealed a the secret base, we're told carbon dating has determined it to be on Earth since 10,000 BCE. Carbon dating is in fact accurate to within about 9 half lives of the carbon 14. 9 half lives of carbon 14 ( at 5280 years per half-life) gives an accuracy limit of about 50,000 years. 10,000 years BCE is well within the time frame able to be determined by radiometric dating using carbon ratios, and would in fact be the most accurate dating method for something in this time frame.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Sam is running from Barricade and hits Mikaela who is riding a moped they fall on the ground and the moped is clearly visible laying next to them on the ground. In the next shot they zoom out and the moped is nowhere to be seen.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): In the scene where Barricade is asking Sam about the eBay page he says the item number for the glasses is 21153 - but all eBay item numbers are at least 10 to 15 digits long.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): When the soldiers are fighting the Scorponok, one soldier is on the phone trying to call the Pentagon, when he leaves the house searching for a credit card, he yells a lot of things, but his mouth movements does not match what he is saying.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): When Captain Lennox is trying to contact the Pentagon during the fight with the scorpion thing in Qatar. He is on the phone with the operator and when he yells "I'm in the middle of a war-zone, this is frigging ridiculous." The words do not match what he actually says.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When you see Archibald Witwicky initially fall through the ice hole, none of the dogs are near him. Immediately next when you see him slide down the hole, he is immediately followed by one of the dogs.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Optimus Prime and Bonecrusher are fighting on the multi-level highway junction, as they fall off the bridge, the corner of the support pillar behind them changes from being in shadow to being in sunlight as the shot changes.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): Ironhide complains about his foot rusting after Mojo "leaked lubricants" on him. Yet he crash landed in a pool when coming to earth and said nothing of rust. However, urine is essentially a diluted acid with salts in it, which would be more corrosive to ferrous metals than chlorinated pool water, so it could be that Ironhide's metal skin is rust-resistant but not rust-proof. More likely, however, is that he was grousing and exaggerating in the process, much like real people do; or just that he didn't complain at the time of landing in the swimming pool as there was nobody to complain to.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Colonel Sharp is wearing a US Marines patch on his uniform when he first looks at the radar screen. After a while you can clearly see it has changed to an US Air Force patch.
Movie Goof (continuity error): After Megatron and Prime fly through the building and land on the street, Megatron throws Prime down onto the crosswalk, hitting a silver parked car, with 4 other cars on the street. In the following scene from the same view, Prime gets up from much further down the street and has to run up to the crosswalk to fire his gun, and only 1 car (a black parked car across the street) is now on the street.
Movie Goof (factual errors): Glenn Morshower's character is referred to in the closing credits as 'SOCCENT Sergeant'. However, when we actually see him (in the film's opening scenes), he is clearly a Colonel: he wears the rank insignia of a Colonel, and is referred to as Colonel by his subordinates.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the alley where Sam, Mikaela and Bumblebee meet the rest of the Autobots, as the camera orbits around the transforming Optimus Prime, Bumblebee can be seen backing up as Ratchet and Jazz pull in to his right and Ironhide to his left. As we pan around Optimus to see them again and the other Autobots are transforming, Ironhide and Bumblebee have switched spots.
Movie Goof (factual errors): The uniforms worn by Captain Lennox's team have patches on their right shoulders from the 82nd Airborne "All Americans" Division, indicating they served with the 82nd in combat. The "Airborne" tab has been incorrectly replaced with a "Ranger" tab. The "Ranger" tab is worn above the "Airborne" tab on the left shoulder when deployed with the unit and it is not used on the right shoulder.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When the autobots are in vehicle mode, they are all cleanly polished, shiny and brand-new looking. However when they transform into robot mode, their shells (including identifiable parts from the vehicles) are covered in dents and scratches, even in scenes with no combat. This is most noticeable in the first scene with all five autobots together in the alley. When they return to vehicle mode, they are once again cleanly polished.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): When Sam Witwicky arrives at the party, the camera crane can be briefly seen as a shadow.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When "Sector 7" agent Tom Banacheck shows two different ALIEN images to Defense Secretary John Keller he states that one is from the Soccent base attack in Qatar [by Blackout] and the other he explains is an image taken from the Beagle 2 Mars Rover. Both images are shown to have been taken during the day; However, Staff Sergeant Epps (Tyrese) took the thermal image after Blackout had transformed (at night)
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Prime gets up to fire his gun at Megatron, there is only one car on the street (a black parked car on the opposite side), but after he fires his gun, the camera pans to reveal a parked cab with 2 people cowering behind it right in front of Megatron, which disappears again after Prime is hit and flies back into the window.
Movie Goof (factual errors): When the gunship rolls in on Scorponok, the special effects show gunfire coming from the forward part of the gunship. The aircraft shown is an AC-130H Pave Spectre, which has not carried armament in the forward compartments for many years now. Further to that the request was for 105mm howitzer shells, the rate of fire from both weapons is more indicative of the 25mm cannon from an AC-130U interlaced with the occasional 40mm Bofors round.
Movie Goof (plot holes): During the Freeway chase, Decepticons: Bonecrusher and Barricade together are in pursuit of the Autobots. Bonecrusher pulls ahead to battle Prime, tearing up the roadway by dispatching hapless motorists. Barricade, however, disappears and does not reappear nor is he mentioned again for the rest of the film.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): In the scene where Megatron and Optimus Prime fall off the building after Optiums saves Sam, they land in front of a car that's just arriving. The car swerves to the left to avoid them. There's a shot from inside the car while it's doing so. During most of this shot, you can see the cameraman in the passenger seat, filming, reflected in the rear-view mirror.
Movie Goof (factual errors): The yellow "1971" Volkswagen Beetle briefly shown in the scene where Sam is picking his first car at the dealership is actually a 1973-1977 model (and in fact a Super Beetle, a different model than the common Beetle).
Movie Goof (plot holes): Optimus Prime tells the humans the Transformers learned English from American TV and the Internet. Megatron has been buried in ice for nearly 100 years, but when thawed he can speak English perfectly.
Movie Goof (errors in geography): The film erroneously states that the Laurentian Abyss is the deepest point on Earth; the actual deepest point is the Marianas Trench in the Pacific Ocean.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): Right before the debriefing of the analysts the movie shows a helicopter flying towards the Pentagon. Right before this the Washington Monument is shown. The top third of the monument is crooked, indicating a clear glitch in the software.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): After all landlines and cell phones are to be shutdown, people in the background of the fight scene in the city are seen using their cellphones. Although, it doesn't necessarily mean that they were talking. A possible explanation for this is that they were trying to phone their family/friends, and failing.
Movie Goof (factual errors): When Agent Simmons places the detector near Sam, he reports that he's seeing 14 Rad. Presumably, Sam has become contaminated by proximity to Bumblebee and the other auto-bots. If Sam is emanating 14 Rads, being in close proximity to him would be fatal in about 24 hours. Sam would certainly be dead himself by this point.
Movie Goof (continuity error): At the beginning of the last fight scene, in the foreground when Capt. Lennox is in the street a woman can clearly be seen on a cellphone. However all communication has been taken out by the Decepticons some considerable time previously, the point made when by the director when Defense Secretary John Keller tried to use his cellphone and couldn't after communication had been "taken out".
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Maggie goes to Glen's house, she's wearing a short skirt. After she, Glen, Sam and Mikaela are dropped off at Hoover Dam, her skirt is replaced with a pair of calf-length jeans, while the rest of her outfit hasn't changed.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Throughout the film, Qatar is pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable. DoD employees would know the proper pronunciation stresses the first. CAU-ter is the closest, though English lacks an equivalent to the original Arabic, especially the peninsular dialect.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Sam is driving Mikaela home from the lake and it "breaks down", she begins walking home. Sam gets into the car to try and start it and the passenger door is clearly open. After the car starts and he jumps out to close the hood, the passenger door is now closed.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Sam and Mikaela are captured by the Sector Seven agents in the causeway, they are pushed face-down onto the pavement and handcuffed behind their backs. As they are dragged away from the scene their hands are clearly free.
Movie Goof (factual errors): Sam Witwicky's eBay user-name is shown on his computer screen as "LadiesMan217" with the L and M capitalized; however, user-names created on eBay can ONLY be displayed as lowercase. The correct visual should be: "ladiesman217"
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): Approximately 2 hours into the movie, when Sam falls to the ground and the Xbox and Mountain Dew machines begin coming alive, it pans back to Sam and a camera man is clearly visible just a few feet from Sam on the right side.
Movie Goof (boom mic visible): When the camera does a 360 around Bobby Boliva after the windows explode, the boom mic's shadow is clearly visible on his head.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): During the first ride that Mikaela takes in Sam's car, both windows are obviously down during their conversation. Yet, neither one has any wind blowing on them. Their hair never moves.
Movie Goof (factual errors): In the scene where Defense Secretary John Keller is giving a public address following the attack on the Qatar Air Base, at one point he says "bases worldwide are at DEFCON delta." DEFCONs levels only go from 5 to 1, 1 representing imminent attack.
Movie Goof (continuity error): The amount of donut on Glen's plate while he and Maggie were in the interrogation room keeps changing. After Glen eats the donuts and finishes, only half of a donut remains. But when the FBI agents walk in, it can clearly be seen that there is one and a half donuts on the plate. And when the agent slides the plate to the center of the table, there is only a half donut on the plate again.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the interrogation room with Glen and Maggie, the clock on the wall behind Glen never changes.
Movie Goof (factual errors): While deployed Tyrese Gibsons' character, TSgt Epps, is shown wearing his scarlet beret in uniform. Customarily the only headgear that is worn in the AF CENTCOM AOR are the ABU/DCU baseball style and boony/floppy hats.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When the Sector 7 members show up at Sam's house, Agent Simmons peers through the mail slot and rings the electric doorbell numerous times, despite the fact that only minutes earlier the electricity for the entire street was taken out when Ratchet accidentally walked into a set of power lines.
Movie Goof (plot holes): As Bumblebee did not belong to the caryard there would be no pink slip for the sale.